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This post aims to detail the issues surrounding the recent problems on the server sh2.us.thiswebhost.com, and what steps we have taken to investigate and implement a final resolution to ensure that these problems do not re-appear. On 27th October the server sh2.us lost connectivity to services, impacting its ability to serve websites, e-mail, FTP and […]

In support of the new European data protection law, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have updated our Privacy Policy. Since there is some discussion and confusion over the subject of whether or not mass mailing customers regarding this change is in fact GDPR compliant, we have opted to instead notify our customers on all […]

At ThisWebHost you may be aware that we run CloudLinux on all of our shared servers. What you may not be aware of is that in addition to helping us manage server resources, CloudLinux also ships with something called “PHP selector” that gives you a great deal of control over PHP in your account via […]

It’s no surprise that WordPress is the most popular script that our customers run on their websites. Unfortunately it’s also the most targeted script when it comes to brute-force hack attempts, vulnerability scanning and other malicious attacks. Not keeping your WordPress installation(s) and plugins up to date is the most common cause of compromised websites […]

As you may be aware from recent news exposure, it has been discovered that there are several vulnerabilities in a range of Intel CPU’s (which we use) that render them at risk of leaking data or memory that could be obtained by attackers. This blog post aims to provide more information about how this affects […]